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Arabs clash with police in Jerusalem as autopsy completed on slain youth

July 3, 2014

Masked rioters threw stones and shot fire works towards police officers in the Shuafat area of east Jerusalem on Thursday afternoon.

Police said that one officer was injured in the riot who was treated at the scene. The police officer injured was struck in the face with a sharp object and was evacuated to Hadassah in Ein Kerem.

No arrests were made but police were using crowd dispersal measures to restore order. The entire area of Shuafat remained cordoned off and as of 6:00 p.m. the rioting was ongoing.

Police were using crowd dispersal measures to restore order.

On Wednesday, Arabs began to riot in east Jerusalem shortly after hearing of the murder 17-year-old Muhammad Abu Khdeir, who they suspected was killed by Jews as retribution for the murder of three Israeli teens.

Police said that hundreds of police officers and border police forces were securing the streets of the capital. The forces were concentrating in the Shuafat and Beit Hanina areas and other parts of east Jerusalem.

Around the same time when as the riots, the Abu Kabir Forensics Institute completed the autopsy on the Abu Khdeir who was found murdered in the Jerusalem Forest.

Both Israeli and Palestinians participated in the autopsy, results from which were being transferred to the police.